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    After Chasing Threats Abroad, Former CIA Chief John Brennan Says The Risk Is At Home

    The former spy chief has dealt with almost all of the country's major security challenges over the past two decades. In his memoir Undaunted, he directs his ire at President Trump.
    by Greg Myre Oct 05, 2020 4 minutes

    John Brennan stepped down as CIA director the very moment Donald Trump was being sworn-in as president – noon on Jan. 20, 2017.

    The next day, Trump visited CIA headquarters and spoke about the size of his inauguration crowd while standing in front of the agency's Memorial Wall, featuring a star for each CIA employee killed in the line of duty.

    "I couldn't take it anymore. I felt physically nauseated watching and listening to him," Brennan writes in his new memoir Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies,. Brennan left home for the gym to blow off steam, only to see Trump's remarks repeated on the television screens as he rode a stationary bike.

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